Load Balancing Contracts

Load Balancing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Load Balancing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Balancing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 343 387
Rank change year-on-year -1 +44 +11
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 251 407 586
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.70% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.78% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 291 375
10th Percentile £331 £385 £413
25th Percentile £385 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £32.20 £28.20
25th Percentile - £46.38 £32.25
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +72.84% -44.71%
75th Percentile - - £49.75
90th Percentile - - £54.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - -39.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Load Balancing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -11 230 £475 -13.64% 62
UK excluding London +56 139 £475 -5.00% 37
London +6 92 £500 -16.67% 25
West Midlands +70 58 £375 - 8
Midlands +67 58 £375 -16.67% 11
Work from Home -18 58 £534 -0.65% 26
East of England +32 30 £500 -9.09% 4
South West +24 17 £600 +21.52% 5
South East -13 14 £450 -10.00% 10
North of England -34 13 £600 +9.09% 7
North West -31 12 £600 +9.09% 4
Scotland - 7 £782 - 1
Yorkshire +16 1 - - 3

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (6.77%) IIS
2 9 (3.59%) Apache
3 7 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.79%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.99%) nginx
5 4 (1.59%) Confluence
6 3 (1.20%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.80%) Traefik
8 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.40%) JBoss
8 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.79%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (25.10%) Azure
2 46 (18.33%) AWS
3 19 (7.57%) GCP
4 18 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.18%) PaaS
6 9 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.79%) Cloudflare
7 7 (2.79%) GitHub
8 6 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.39%) Twilio
9 5 (1.99%) Akamai
9 5 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.59%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.59%) SaaS
10 4 (1.59%) Serverless
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon Glacier
11 3 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 100 (39.84%) Firewall
2 84 (33.47%) VPN
3 80 (31.87%) WAN
4 69 (27.49%) BGP
5 62 (24.70%) DNS
5 62 (24.70%) MPLS
6 50 (19.92%) IPsec
7 47 (18.73%) Junos
8 37 (14.74%) Network Security
9 28 (11.16%) LAN
10 24 (9.56%) DHCP
11 19 (7.57%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (7.17%) SD-WAN
13 14 (5.58%) 5G
13 14 (5.58%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (5.58%) VoIP
14 13 (5.18%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (5.18%) TCP/IP
14 13 (5.18%) Wireshark
15 12 (4.78%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.99%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.80%) Power BI
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.40%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.40%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.40%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) MySQL
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.57%) Git
2 14 (5.58%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.38%) Artifactory
4 10 (3.98%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (3.19%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.79%) JIRA
7 5 (1.99%) GitLab
7 5 (1.99%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.59%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.40%) Ant
9 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.40%) JUnit
9 1 (0.40%) Maven
9 1 (0.40%) Mockito
9 1 (0.40%) TestNG
General
1 45 (17.93%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.95%) Finance
3 18 (7.17%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.38%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.59%) Banking
6 9 (3.59%) Retail
7 6 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.99%) German Language
9 4 (1.59%) Automotive
9 4 (1.59%) Legal
10 3 (1.20%) Marketing
11 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (29.88%) Network Engineer
2 36 (14.34%) Architect
3 26 (10.36%) Senior
4 25 (9.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 25 (9.96%) 3rd Line Support
4 25 (9.96%) WAN Engineer
5 21 (8.37%) Network Support
6 17 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.98%) Web Engineer
8 14 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.18%) Administrator
9 13 (5.18%) Support Engineer
10 12 (4.78%) Lead
11 11 (4.38%) Network Architect
12 9 (3.59%) Developer
12 9 (3.59%) Full Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Design Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.37%) .NET
1 16 (6.37%) CSS
1 16 (6.37%) HTML
1 16 (6.37%) React
2 8 (3.19%) LDAP
2 8 (3.19%) Middleware
3 7 (2.79%) SAML
4 6 (2.39%) Node.js
4 6 (2.39%) Web Services
5 5 (1.99%) JWT
5 5 (1.99%) OAuth
6 4 (1.59%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.59%) 802.1X
6 4 (1.59%) JSON
6 4 (1.59%) NETCONF
6 4 (1.59%) Spring
6 4 (1.59%) XML
6 4 (1.59%) YANG
7 3 (1.20%) JDBC
7 3 (1.20%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (23.90%) PKI
2 31 (12.35%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.38%) Clustering
4 8 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.79%) IVR
5 7 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.59%) Replication
6 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.20%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.20%) Media Streaming
7 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.40%) FMCG
9 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.74%) Linux
2 34 (13.55%) Windows
3 22 (8.76%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.98%) Unix
5 8 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.39%) CentOS
7 5 (1.99%) Android
7 5 (1.99%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.99%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.40%) VMS
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.69%) DevOps
2 48 (19.12%) Agile
3 43 (17.13%) Network Design
4 39 (15.54%) CI/CD
4 39 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (10.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (9.16%) Migration
7 20 (7.97%) Software Engineering
8 17 (6.77%) Identity Management
8 17 (6.77%) Roadmaps
9 16 (6.37%) ITIL
10 15 (5.98%) Mentoring
11 14 (5.58%) Computer Science
11 14 (5.58%) Full Stack Development
11 14 (5.58%) Test Automation
12 12 (4.78%) High Availability
12 12 (4.78%) Kanban
12 12 (4.78%) Network Virtualisation
12 12 (4.78%) Task Automation
13 11 (4.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.34%) Python
2 35 (13.94%) PowerShell
3 21 (8.37%) Java
4 20 (7.97%) SQL
5 18 (7.17%) Bash
6 14 (5.58%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.59%) Go
8 7 (2.79%) C#
9 5 (1.99%) Bicep
10 4 (1.59%) Ruby
10 4 (1.59%) VBScript
11 3 (1.20%) C
11 3 (1.20%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.20%) PHP
12 2 (0.80%) Scala
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) Perl
13 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (33.86%) Security Cleared
2 33 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.16%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (8.76%) CCNP
5 21 (8.37%) Degree
6 16 (6.37%) CCNA
7 13 (5.18%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.19%) Master's Degree
8 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.39%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.99%) CCDP
11 4 (1.59%) CCIE
12 3 (1.20%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.40%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.40%) MCSA
13 1 (0.40%) MCSE
13 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.39%) GDPR
1 6 (2.39%) HIPAA
1 6 (2.39%) PCI DSS
1 6 (2.39%) SOC 2
2 2 (0.80%) NCSC
3 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (11.16%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (5.18%) Docker
3 13 (5.18%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (3.98%) VMware NSX
5 8 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.19%) vSphere
6 5 (1.99%) VMware Server
7 3 (1.20%) NFS
8 2 (0.80%) PowerDNS
8 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (9.56%) Terraform
2 20 (7.97%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.58%) Puppet
4 13 (5.18%) Ansible
4 13 (5.18%) SCCM
5 12 (4.78%) SCOM
6 11 (4.38%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.99%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.59%) Grafana
9 4 (1.59%) Kibana
10 3 (1.20%) Istio
10 3 (1.20%) Podman
10 3 (1.20%) vRealize
11 2 (0.80%) Consul
11 2 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.80%) Graphite
11 2 (0.80%) linkerd
Vendors
1 76 (30.28%) Cisco
2 61 (24.30%) Juniper
3 60 (23.90%) F5
4 38 (15.14%) Microsoft
5 26 (10.36%) VMware
6 20 (7.97%) Palo Alto
7 19 (7.57%) Fortinet
8 17 (6.77%) Aruba
9 15 (5.98%) Meraki
10 11 (4.38%) Splunk
11 9 (3.59%) Oracle
11 9 (3.59%) SolarWinds
12 8 (3.19%) Genesys
12 8 (3.19%) Google
13 7 (2.79%) Arista
13 7 (2.79%) CheckPoint
13 7 (2.79%) Citrix
14 6 (2.39%) Avaya
14 6 (2.39%) Infoblox
14 6 (2.39%) Nokia